I don’t want to keep talking about crypto because it’s not my area of expertise.
But I want to respond to the post below because I’ve seen too many of these “feel good” assertions, as if we are on the verge of breaking away from a “dying” system and about to “earn our freedoms”.
These are luxury beliefs with no grounding in reality.
Bitcoin doesn’t dissolve the old frame. It proves how the TPS [Transnational Private Sector] rewrites frames.
Gold worked not because people “believed” in it,
but because a handful of people within states and empires enforced it with armies, trade routes, regulation and convertibility rules.
The masses just did as they’re told.
There’s a whole power structure mandate that you’re completely neglecting.
The dollar works NOT because of “habit,” but because the FIC transacts in it and the MIC enforces it globally.
Saddam shared a very similar philosophy on the dollar. That it was a fiat worth nothing based on false belief.
He quickly found out that it was much more than that.
So did Gaddafi.
Ok.
So it’s NOT just “belief” that adds value to a currency.
It’s enforcement of the power structure that punishes anyone who deviates from it.
Lot of people think companies like Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft are sovereign giants calling the shots because of their multi-trillion dollar valuations.
That’s not how it works.
At all.
It’s the financiers that call the shot.
Through proxy voting and board control, they set policy on dividends, ESG, executive pay, even mergers.
Apple, NVIDIA etc may look powerful, but they’re ultimately operators inside an index fund empire. They are constrained by semiconductor subsidies, export controls, and defense-linked AI/Chip contracts.
These CEO’s rely on JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi, etc, for credit lines, bond issuance, and stock buybacks. This level of capital availability is political.
Tied to TPS interests.
Defense firms like Raytheon are structurally embedded in the MIC. Their demand is guaranteed by Pentagon budgets, not free markets.
Energy firms like Chevron are tied to FIC-MIC loops (petrodollar, US security guarantees).
The regulatory chokepoints that Trump loves to slap on US companies like export controls, antitrust threats, sanctions frameworks, making it look like he’s working for the people, is just a facade.
It’s all to simply remind firms that they’re licensed to operate within TPS rules.
The fact is that these companies are powerful at the operational level (deciding products, engineering, marketing) but subordinate at the strategic level (capital flows, bloc alignment, geopolitics).
Once a firm is swallowed by the TPS, it means financiers drive the decisions.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy and the Russian Navy have for the first time conducted a joint patrol in the Pacific, at a time of increasingly close defence cooperation between the two neighbours.
This follows the first ever deployment of Chinese submarines to Russia for joint exercises in late July.
The Russian Navy Pacific Fleet reported regarding the operation: “The joint patrol was launched in early August, after the Russian-Chinese drills Maritime Interaction 2025 had concluded in the Sea of Japan. The diesel-electric submarine Volkhov of the Pacific Fleet and a submarine of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy took to patrolling along an approved route in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.”
The Russian submarine, a Kilo Class vessel, reportedly covered over 2,000 nautical miles during its voyage.
Russian Kilo Class Attack submarine
China has deployed warships for joint operations with the Russian Navy on multiple occasions, including in Eastern Europe and in the Eastern Mediterranean. A possible next step after joint short ranged patrols using diesel electronic submarines would be the deployment of much larger long ranged nuclear powered attack submarines for joint patrols or operations in the Pacific.
…it may be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Filing this under ‘humor’ just in case. ABN
UPDATE: Apparently this is a real video. Huckabee should step down immediately and all top members of this administration should publicly disavow his absurd kowtowing to the claims of an ancient cult masking as a religion. ABN
U.S. officials say RCMP stonewalling on the Chinese-precursor-supplied Falkland superlab — described by DEA chief Derek Maltz as a “major disaster” — among the reasons behind Trump’s punitive tariffs
WASHINGTON — Canada’s federal police refused to investigate or cooperate with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration on a British Columbia fentanyl superlab probe tied to chemical-precursor shipments from China into Vancouver in late 2022, according to senior U.S. officials. More than a year later — only after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Iranian-Canadian businessman Bahman Djebelibak and his Health Canada–licensed company Valerian Labs, naming them as part of a Chinese fentanyl trafficking syndicate that Washington sought to disrupt — did the RCMP finally open a siloed investigation. The force continued to refuse coordination or information sharing with the American agents who had initiated the case. In an exclusive interview, Derek Maltz, DEA Acting Administrator in 2025 with oversight of the matter, called the B.C. superlab case a “major disaster.”
This explosive information, confirmed to The Bureau by current and former senior U.S. officials, has never before been reported in the Falkland, B.C., superlab case, which was covered internationally by outlets including The New York Times. It amounts to a rare public rebuke that elevates the matter from a Canadian policing failure into a high-consequence geopolitical dispute.
It also helps explain Washington’s decision on July 31 to impose 35 percent tariffs on Canada, reinforcing President Donald Trump’s claim that senior officials had warned him Ottawa failed to cooperate or devote sufficient resources to interdictions against Chinese- and Mexican-linked drug trafficking networks blamed for killing hundreds of thousands of North Americans.
What people thought America could be – a beacon of democracy – was the last thing it became. In reality, it’s a corporate machine that has given rise to the Transnational Private Sector (TPS).
The TPS is a coalition of corporate giants, led by the Financial-Industrial Complex (FIC) with firms like JPMorgan, Goldman, and BlackRock, alongside the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC), Consumer-Industrial Complex (CIC), and Techno-Industrial Complex (TIC).
This collective force operates beyond borders, transcends nationality, and prioritizes profit over public welfare.
When Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO, warned in October 2024 that wars in Ukraine and the Middle East could destabilize the global economy, he wasn’t just forecasting. He was asserting the TPS’s dominance over policy.
To understand this power, you have to examine the game theory driving the TPS’s clash with nations.
This concept that I have developed deliberately sets aside the idea of good, evil, right, or wrong. Geopolitical dynamics are examined through the lens of incentives, power, and measurable outcomes, not moral judgments. The focus is the strategic interplay of actors, stripped of ethical narratives.
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Game theory provides a framework for understanding geopolitical strategies by analyzing the incentives that drive actors’ decisions.
There are two distinct game types: finite and infinite. Both these games shape global interactions. Finite games are zero-sum with defined endpoints, and clear winners and losers. It’s akin to a corporate quarter where profit maximization is the sole objective.
One player wins, the other loses.
Infinite games, conversely, lack a conclusion, have no end, prioritizing sustained participation through long-term stability, akin to a nation’s multi-generational survival strategy.
States operate within infinite games.
They do not expire. They do not tap out.
Their permanence compels them to prioritize enduring stability over immediate gains. For instance, China’s $1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative, spanning decades, secures global trade networks to ensure long-term economic influence. BRICS nations, through $10 billion in yuan-based trade, foster mutual economic resilience for mutual prosperity.
This cooperative approach engenders a form of morality rooted in reciprocity: mutual support today ensures mutual survival tomorrow. Such strategies reflect a commitment to societal development and stability, as states must maintain legitimacy and resources for their populations over time.
The TPS operates as a corporate entity, fundamentally detached from societal obligations. Unlike states, the TPS bears no responsibility to citizens, public welfare, or long-term development. Its imperative is profit maximization within finite time horizons, driven by shareholder demands and market cycles.
In an extraordinary display of spiritual diplomacy and international gratitude, 70,000 Cambodian Buddhist monks have rallied behind Prime Minister Hun Manet’s historic nomination of President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, marking one of the most significant religious endorsements in modern Southeast Asian politics.
The unprecedented support comes following Trump’s decisive diplomatic intervention that successfully ended a dangerous five-day border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand in July 2025, preventing what military analysts warned could have escalated into a devastating regional war.
The Bush family, whose neoconservative war-hawk policies dragged America into catastrophic Middle East quagmires costing trillions and countless lives, is plotting a brazen political comeback, even as voters from all sides have rejected their reckless globalist agenda.
Despite George P. Bush’s humiliating 2022 defeat in the Texas attorney general GOP primary, Jonathan, a former health care executive, is testing the waters with an exploratory committee and a new nonprofit, “Maine for Keeps,” aimed at tackling the state’s economic and housing woes. The Bangor Daily News reported that George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush rolled out the red carpet for their cousin at a swanky Kennebunkport fundraiser this week.
Jonathan S Bush
According to Brandon Rottinghouse, a University of Houston political science professor, Bush-style politics are “like the anti-MAGA” and that the “tone and issue profile of most modern Republicans are different from the Bush family politics,” adding “Republican primary audiences are now conditioned to a more aggressive breed of conservatism, one district from the Bush family political legacy.”
Meanwhile, Ronald Schmidt, professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine, told Newsweek that there are still Republicans in the state who would support a Bush.
The face of yet another elite faction vying for American power.
I would not be at all surprised if this faction were behind the assassination attempt on Trump, or closely associated with whomever did it.
I do see the notion that the assassination was political theater made to help Trump, but believe the odds of that are low.
There are many elite factions who bear on USA — European royal families, Jewish Supremists, the Bushes, often aligned with the Clintons. We also have Thiel, Musk, and the tech bros; the CCP and more.
This list is long depending how far down the power structure you go or how widely you cast your net. ABN
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